Move over, Garth Brooks: Zach Bryan is now Ireland’s most beloved country music artist – but what’s his story?

If you haven’t heard of him yet, you will – the 28-year-old, who has collaborated with Bruce Springsteen and John Mayer, is set to nab fellow Oklahoman Garth Brooks’s crown as our top country music crooner

Zach Bryan performs in support of his 2024 The Quittin Time Tour at Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. Photo: Scott Legato/Getty Images

He was born in Okinawa, raised in Oklahoma and this June will play three huge gigs at Dublin’s Phoenix Park to 180,000 people – which may well be completely sold out by the time you read this. The question is, who the hell is Zach Bryan?

Ireland’s love affair with country music has been long-established and well-documented. We even have our own sub-genre, Country and Irish (aka Culchie and Western), will don a fluffy cowboy hat at the earliest opportunity, flock to the Country to Country (C2C) festival in our droves when it hits Irish shores every year, and have rolled out the red carpet for Garth Brooks on numerous occasions across the decades – even after the unforgettable fiasco that was GarthGate.

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